Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1911 — Aged Lady Died at Son’s Home Near Surrey Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Aged Lady Died at Son’s Home Near Surrey Sunday.

Mrs. Cynthia A Samson, mother of C. L. Parks, of near Surrey, died Sunday night at 9 o’clock at her son’s home after an illness from dropsy that had confined her to her bed for the past six weeks. Deceased was 80 years, 3 months anil 3 days of age and had madd her home with her son for the past three years. For many years prior to that time she had lived at Sidney, 111., where the body was taken for burial. Charles C. Parks having gone ahead to make arrangements for the funeral. C. L. Parks accompanied the body to Sidney, being joined by his brother George, of Logansport.